Jans i Seghers was a German/East German author, writing from 1925 to 1965.  The stories in this collection are of two varieties – realistic and very somber, and magical realism or mythic tales.  Some of the first sort weren’t bad, but I really enjoyed those of the second sort. The title story is one of the second type.  The narrator is traveling through a German village when gradually she begins to remember a field trip her class took here, years ago, before the war.  As […]